Avanti Custom Homes new home in Parklake Village leads in green-building design

Published 9:24 am, Friday, February 7, 2014

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This 5,934-square-foot home, in the Parklake Village neighborhood in Katy, is built by Avanti Custom Homes, a division of Trendmaker Homes. It has been certified as an LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) home. less

This 5,934-square-foot home, in the Parklake Village neighborhood in Katy, is built by Avanti Custom Homes, a division of Trendmaker Homes. It has been certified as an LEED (Leadership in Energy and ... more

Avanti Custom Homes new home in Parklake Village leads in green-building design

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LEED, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a rating system for the design, construction and operation of high-performance green homes and buildings developed by the U.S. Green Building Council.

LEED certification offers third-party validation of a project's green features and verifies the building is operating the way it was designed to. Certification is administered by the Green Building Certification Institute through a network of professional, third-party certification bodies.

For certification, projects must satisfy particular prerequisites and earn points. Categories include Sustainable Sites, Water Efficiency, Energy and Atmosphere, Materials and Resources, and Indoor Environmental Quality. An additional category, Innovation in Design, addresses sustainable building expertise as well as design measures not covered under the five environmental categories.

This 5,934-square-foot home, in the Parklake Village neighborhood in Katy, is built by Avanti Custom Homes, a division of Trendmaker Homes. Avanti Custom Homes' tenured home-building teams have learned that listening to customers about how they live in their homes inspires ideas about how to make homes that facilitate easy, comfortable daily living.

As a division of Trendmaker Homes, Avanti benefits from the experience of Trendmaker's 40-plus years in the home-building industry. Avanti buyers can choose to modify one of Trendmaker's popular plan designs or design a new plan from scratch. The builder's design team has expertise in designing homes all over Houston including Bellaire, Memorial, the Heights, Texas Medical Center, Tanglewood, the Museum District, Midtown and Uptown areas.